A fresh, cool minty-herbal material with a soft fruity-green facet from the isovalerate ester. Reminiscent of crushed mint leaves with a slightly sweet, apple-like undertone, less biting than menthol and rounder than peppermint oil.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 790.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-herbaceous, somewhat balsamic-minty and root-like odor of good tenacity.
Bitter-woody, herbaceous-earthy taste.
This ester finds very little, if any, use in perfumery.
It is used sparingly in various flavors, e.g. imitation Plum and other fruits, in mint complexes and in certain types of Liqueur flavors, e.g. the D.O.M. type.
1) from laevo-Menthol plus iso-Valeryl chloride. 2) from laevo-Menthol and iso-Valeric acid under azeotropic conditions.